EOSC 112 The Climate System

Introduction to Earth's climate system: radiation balance, greenhouse effect, atmosphere and ocean circulation, plate tectonics, biosphere interactions, and the carbon cycle. Applications to understand the causes of climate change, from long-term climate evolution to modern human-induced climate change.

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EOSC 212 Topics in the Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Cutting edge problems in earth, ocean, atmospheric and planetary sciences. Topics will be introduced through discussions of the current literature.

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EOSC 270 Marine Ecosystems

Introduction to diversity of marine habitats and ecosystems; hydrothermal vent, intertidal, coral reef, estuarine, deep sea, and polar ecosystems; impacts of ecosystem change; evolution of ocean plankton; invasive species; climate change; pollution.

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EOSC 340 Global Climate Change

Mechanisms and processes of past and future global environmental and climate change.

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EOSC 442 Climate Measurement and Analysis

Local climate time series collection and analysis. Retrieval and analysis of online climate data and model output.

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Theories of storage and movement of water within groundwater systems; Groundwater-surface water...
Local climate time series collection and analysis. Retrieval and analysis of online climate data...
Hydraulic head measurements, water-quality sampling, pump and slug testing, infiltration...
Contaminant transport processes in groundwater flow systems; aqueous and multiphase transport;...

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